Current Research Interests
General: Housing and Community Development, Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics and Finance, GIS application in Planning
Specific: Race and gender issues, poverty, mortgage deliquency, default and foreclosure, neighborhood change, housing market and urban form
Grants
06/2005 - 06/2006: Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University: The Dynamic Interaction between Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes (PI: Prof. Hazel Morrow-Jones)
Dissertation
My dissertation topic is "The Dynamic Interaction between Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes". At the beginning in order to apply for a grant from Ohio, I wanted to focus on what are the major reasons why Ohio has high foreclosure rates since 1995, and also tried to conduct a survey to mortgage bankers and attorneys to find out why other alternatives didn't work for both lenders and borrowers, except foreclosure. But then I changed my mind to focus on neighborhood change and foreclosure, which is a very new field with only a little literature. I hope that I can contribute to the existing literature and also provide policy foundations for communities to reduce foreclosure by intervening with foreclosure legislation, policies and procedures, for example, by establishing efficient and effective mortgage foreclosure prevention programs.
There is abundant literature on neighborhood change, but only a little tried to explore the relationship between residential mortgage foreclosure and neighborhood change. Broadly speaking, the interaction is caused by housing submarket imbalance (the tricky game between supply and demand) and segregation. But the process is more complicated than this. Neighborhood characteristics are only part of the factors affecting mortgage default and foreclosure, along with mortgage characteristics, borrower characteristics, housing attributes and characteristics. But the impact of mortgage foreclosure on neighborhood change is as great as, or even greater than, its impacts on borrowers. The interaction between neighborhood change and foreclosure can provide significant policy bases to revitalize declining neighborhoods and decrease the geographical concentration of mortgage foreclosure.
Publications in Chinese
1. Dianting Wu, Yanmei Li, et.
al. 2002. The Development of Intellectual Economy in
2. Dianting Wu, Jie Tian, Yanmei
Li, et. al. 2002. The Analysis of the Relationships between Modernization,
Industrialization, Urbanization, Intellectualization and Economic Development
in
3.
Yanmei Li, Dianting Wu, Gang Zeng, 1999.
On the Diffusion Characteristics and Development Strategies of Hi-tech
in Changjiang Delta, Areal Research and Development (Chinese),
Vol.18, No.3
4. Dianting Wu, Shen Ji, Yanmei
Li. 1998. Dividing One Integrated Part to Three Sections in Geographic
Thought, Young Geographer(Chinese), Vol.9, No.4
Publications in English
1. Morrow-Jones, Hazel, Mary V. Wenning, and Yanmei Li. 2005. Differences in Neighborhood Satisfaction between African American and White Homeowners. Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 46th Annual Conference, Oct. 2005, Kansas City, Missouri; Under Review, Journal of Planning Education and Research
• Li, Yanmei and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones. 2007. The Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure. Under Revision. Housing Policy Debate
• Li, Yanmei. 2007. Residential Satisfaction, Home Remodeling, and Household Mobility Decisions. Under Review. Journal of Housing Research
Conference Papers
• Li, Yanmei. The Interaction between Home Remodeling, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Household Mobility Decisions. Presented at the annual meeting of SEDAAG (Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers), Nov. 18-20, 2007, Charleston, South Carolina
• Li, Yanmei and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones. The Impact of Residential Mortgage Foreclosures on Neighborhood Change and Succession. Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 48th Annual Conference, Oct. 18-21, 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Li, Yanmei. Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, Neighborhood Income Restructuring, and Poverty Concentration in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area. Presented at the International Conference on Urban Justice and Sustainability, August 22-25, 2007, Vancouver, Canada
• Li, Yanmei and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones. The Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure. Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 47th Annual Conference, Nov. 2006, Fort Worth, Texas
• Morrow-Jones, Hazel A., Mary V. Wenning, and Yanmei Li. 2005. Differences in Neighborhood Satisfaction between African American and White Homeowners. Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 46th Annual Conference, Oct. 2005, Kansas City, Missouri; Under Revision, Journal of Planning Education and Research
Discussant
• Hernandez, Jesus. 2007. Redlining Revisited: Subprime Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento. Presented at the International Conference on Urban Justice and Sustainability, August 22-25, 2007, Vancouver, Canada
• Hankins, Katherine. 2007. Neighborhood Activism in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: from Making Safe Spaces to “Gilding the Lily”. Presented at the annual meeting of SEDAAG (Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers), Nov. 18-20, 2007, Charleston, South Carolina
Other Presentations
• Li, Yanmei. 2007. The Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes on Single-Family Mortgage Foreclosure. Presented at Geog 500: Geoscience Research & Literacy. Nov. 1, 2007. Dept. of Geography & Geology, Western Kentucky University
• Li, Yanmei. 2007. Housing Cost Burdens of Female-Headed Households: A Comparative Approach. Presented at a City and Regional Planning seminar, the Ohio State University. May 18, 2007. Columbus, Ohio
• Li, Yanmei. 2006. The Dynamic Interaction between Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes. Presented at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Texas A & M University. Feb., 2006. College Station, Texas
Research in Progress
• Li, Yanmei. Housing Cost Burden of Female-Headed Households. Targeting Journal of Family and Economic Issues
• Li, Yanmei. Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, Neighborhood Income Restructuring, and Poverty Concentration in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area. Targeting International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• Li, Yanmei. Residential Mortgage Foreclosure: A Literature Review. Targeting Journal of Housing Research
• Li, Yanmei. Risk Factors Contributing to Residential Mortgage Default: A Literature Review. Targeting Real Estate Economics
• Li, Yanmei and Hazel A. Morrow Jones. The Impact of Residential Mortgage Foreclosures on Neighborhood Change and Succession. Targeting Urban Studies
Research Expericence
Graduate
Research Assistant
10/2004 – 08/2006 City and Regional Planning & Center for Urban
and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University
• The Dynamic Interaction between Residential Mortgage Foreclosure,
Neighborhood Characteristics and Changes (06/2005 - 06/2006, Center for
Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University, PI: Hazel Morrow-Jones)
• Racial Disparities in Homeownership, Household Mobility, and Neighborhood
Satisfaction (10/2004 – 9/2005, West Ohio Research Consortium Grant,
PI: Hazel Morrow-Jones and Mary V. Wenning)
09/1998 –
12/2000 Dept. of Resource and Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University,
China
• Long-term Planning of Economic Development and Urban Fringe Layout
Planning of Ganjingzi District, Dalian, China 09/2000 – 12/2000
• Landscape Planning in Huanggang, Hubei Province, China 07/2000
– 10/2000
• Tourism Planning of Anshan, Liaoning Province, China 07/2000 –
10/2000
• Economic Development Planning of Fuzhou Township, Dalian, China
09/1999 – 01/2000
• Establishment of Electric Natural Disaster Database of China,
11/1998 – 04/1999